Is Gmail Too Slow? Google's Working On It

At SXSW in Austin at Google's Panel, Jonathan Perlow (a Gmail team member) asked the attendees to raise their hands if they thought Gmail was too slow and surprisingly a fair percentage of the audience members raised their hands . Basically Gmail slows down when there is a power user with hundreds of thousands of messages (most of which are usually junk) but Perlow had a response. He confidently said "we are fixing it" but didn't exactly elaborate but Google's always improving Gmail so hopefully we'll see some improvements for power users.

Gmail currently has hundreds of millions of users (although they would not give an exact number), and it ranks as the third most popular email service (behind Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Email, both of which have been around much longer than Google's Gmail.) Google has come a long way since it first started the project and has experienced success. Fixing issues especially those that concern speed will definitely give Google a leg up against their competition. What do you think of the whole ordeal? Have you experienced slow loads on Gmail? Share your thoughts and comments below.